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The IIW2007a Spoken Word: CommunityIdentityAuthenticity

Kaliya Young · May 18, 2007 · Leave a Comment

CommunityIdentityAuthenticity

This community…has its challenges.

Harnessing its own enthusiasm and energy to affect real change
It’s a challenge…
Moving together
despite differences in the details
Getting the populace to understand
what we can barely understand and
communicate
between ourselves
It’s a challenge…
Communicating the understanding and importance of internet identity
to the average member
of society
It’s a challenge…
Trust
Divergence versus Convergence
Policy evaluation privacy evaluation
I just feel like shouting out …
My life
My terms:
Choice, Privacy and Control !

Like shouting…
One hundred and eighty passwords — and counting — is too many !!

Shouting
Where’s the money?!
We need to get out of the technology ivory tower!

Shouting

V R M!

I feel like shouting

We are all painting variations on the same picture!
— and it is hard
to see
what the image is.

And then I think, if I were the user, I would say

Don’t rock the boat!

I would say

Keep it simple and make it just…work.
Keep it simple !!!
Why can’t you make this easier for me?

I would say…
What is actually happening here?
Here is what I wish for the future:
I wish it would .. “just work” … for users.
Here’s what I hope for:
Something my dad can use and not get phished.
Here is my dream:
That we get how to engage in real-value, consensual transactions
Here is my dream:
Breaking down power structures
safe and powerful for everyone
in all contexts
Becoming invisible
and indispensable
Authenticity.
— by Mark Aiken, Kevin Turner, Brad Fitzpatrick, Eddie Codel, Peter Davis, Ajay Madhok, Mike Jones, Johannes Ernst, Joe Andrieu, Mark Lentczner, David Recordon, Henrik Biering, Drummond, Reed, V. Gale, Gerald Beuchett, heathervescent, Weston Triemstra, Martin Atkins, Steve Williams, Paul Bryan and Lisa Heft
This spoken word piece was the closing for the
Internet Identity Workshop
May 15, 2007 — Mountain View, California, USA, Earth

Community, Digital Identity, Identitification, IIW

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